About

I’ve been teaching yoga and meditation since 2001. From the start my personal meditation bench design became popular with my students. So, I began making them one at a time back then and have been refining the design in subtle ways ever since. I also sell them on Amazon.com and the reviews there are amazing. I love hearing about people’s experience.

I still make every bench myself. It feels good to do so. It feels like a good thing for me to do.

Other stuff about me:
In 2002 I founded Ahimsa Yoga (a spiritual center for meditation and yoga in Torrance CA), then it became Ananda Meditation Center South Bay in 2005 and I continued there as primary instructor and spiritual director until 2010.

Now I have a workshop in Torrance where I build our meditation bench and a new teaching center here called Meditation Unlimited.

I am definitely not a Master or a Guru. Just a person who enjoys sharing basic tools or concepts that have helped me with others who want them. I draw my inspiration from the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda.

I’m glad you enjoyed the meditation and discussion. I really enjoyed those too. We live at Ananda now. Maybe you’ll do a retreat up here some time. I know there is a good one happening down your way in January with a couple of dear friends of mine, Gyandev and Diksha McCord. I think you would appreciate them. Here is a link to their website: